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West with Wilson, Trip 2, Escaping Hurricane Rita:, September 29, 2005
My name is Wilson, I am a Rhodesian Ridgeback, almost 2 years old. I live with George at Crystal Beach Texas, which is just up the coast from Galveston. We live a block from the Gulf of Mexico. So, you know what we have been doing for the last week. Running from Hurricane Rita. Now, I have never been in a big storm so I wanted to stay at our home on the beach, but George thought otherwise so we evacuated along with millions of other folks. Yes, millions of us were on the road. And in our little group there were three dogs and three adults.
We spent 8 hours trying to drive to Bastrop Texas. It usually takes 3 hours. But we made it and there I met 6 other dogs and 6 cats. All of us were running from Rita. We spent most of last week in Bastrop. We had a very nice time. George and I stayed in a cottage built in the late 1800’s. We had a nice bed, A/C, a bath and most important cable TV, where we watched the Weather channel and CNN night and day.
The nice folks in Bastrop were great to us. They wined and dined us every night. They let me play in a big back yard with their dogs, made sure I had food and welcomed us like we were long lost relatives. We stayed there until Monday when we headed back to Houston and awaited word about our home.
We believed that the storm if it had come to Galveston would have blown our newly remodeled home away. But the storm went in the Port Arthur area and our home was saved. Just one little problem. No electricity. And since we are at the end of the line for Entergy we cannot expect any power until the end of October.
We went back to the beach and cleaned out the refrigerator. But with no power is very hot. The outside temp was about the same as that inside. In fact the heat index was over 100 degrees. We had a small generator, but not powerful enough to run the A/C inside the whole house. So we tried to keep just the bedroom cool with a small window A/C. But then we ran out of gasoline at 4AM in the morning to keep the generator going. And besides at about 3 dollars a gallon it is expensive to run a generator. And our septic tank is power by electricity and it was not working. So, what should we do? Stay and brave the heat or get on the road and find some nice cool weather?
Come on back, hit the analysis section and find out what George and I decided to do.
Wilson
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West with Wilson, Trip 2, Escaping Hurricane Rita:, September 29, 2005
My name is Wilson, I am a Rhodesian Ridgeback, almost 2 years old. I live with George at Crystal Beach Texas, which is just up the coast from Galveston. We live a block from the Gulf of Mexico. So, you know what we have been doing for the last week. Running from Hurricane Rita. Now, I have never been in a big storm so I wanted to stay at our home on the beach, but George thought otherwise so we evacuated along with millions of other folks. Yes, millions of us were on the road. And in our little group there were three dogs and three adults.
We spent 8 hours trying to drive to Bastrop Texas. It usually takes 3 hours. But we made it and there I met 6 other dogs and 6 cats. All of us were running from Rita. We spent most of last week in Bastrop. We had a very nice time. George and I stayed in a cottage built in the late 1800’s. We had a nice bed, A/C, a bath and most important cable TV, where we watched the Weather channel and CNN night and day.
The nice folks in Bastrop were great to us. They wined and dined us every night. They let me play in a big back yard with their dogs, made sure I had food and welcomed us like we were long lost relatives. We stayed there until Monday when we headed back to Houston and awaited word about our home.
We believed that the storm if it had come to Galveston would have blown our newly remodeled home away. But the storm went in the Port Arthur area and our home was saved. Just one little problem. No electricity. And since we are at the end of the line for Entergy we cannot expect any power until the end of October.
We went back to the beach and cleaned out the refrigerator. But with no power is very hot. The outside temp was about the same as that inside. In fact the heat index was over 100 degrees. We had a small generator, but not powerful enough to run the A/C inside the whole house. So we tried to keep just the bedroom cool with a small window A/C. But then we ran out of gasoline at 4AM in the morning to keep the generator going. And besides at about 3 dollars a gallon it is expensive to run a generator. And our septic tank is power by electricity and it was not working. So, what should we do? Stay and brave the heat or get on the road and find some nice cool weather?
Come on back, hit the analysis section and find out what George and I decided to do.
Wilson